I’ll just put it out there. Best muffins ever.
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Came across this recipe this morning, made them, and am just tasting them now. All I can say is wow!!! Super tasty and a perfect combo of crunch on top and moist in the middle. Well done! This one is a keeper and Thank You!!!
Nada
That’s right. Best muffins ever.
This is like combining everything I’ve ever loved in a muffin and baking it to fluffy, moist, streusely perfection: peanut butter, banana, cinnamon, and chocolate chips.
And whole wheat flour, although that’s not exactly the sort of thing you’ve loved forever. It’s more of the sneak it into your food and feel better about eating thirteen peanut butter muffins for breakfast kind of thing.
I originally made these because I wanted to eat something healthy. But that’s a lie. I actually wanted to bake for my mom, because she’s visiting me this week in the Philippines and staying at our apartment, which is probably the highlight of my life. Thanks for coming, Mom!
If we’re being honest, our apartment is not a very homey place for visitors. I mean, she’s sleeping on a hand-me-down futon with a random assortment of sheets and blankets and a herd of wild barking dogs right outside the window. She also found a cockroach in her HAIR, which did not happen at our apartment because we have at least three million roach poison contraptions sitting around (obsessed much?), but still.
The Philippines can be an overwhelming place for a visitor and if there was ever a cure for overwhelmedness, it’s heavenly chococolate chip muffins laced with peanut butter and banana. I should know.
So these muffins.
I first made them without the banana and peanut butter. They weren’t melt-in-your-mouth-died-and-went-to-heaven amazing. They were average. I felt a little sad.
BUT then I bought a kilo of bananas from the fruit stand lady on my street. PS. Does anyone else get completely discombobulated when ordering in kilos? Every time I order something, I have to stop and think about how much I’m really getting, but my mental conversion calculator seems to be broken because I always end up with WAY more than I need. Confused Westerner.
Armed with my super sweet Filipino bananas and a jar of creamy peanut butter, I took to the muffins a second time and things went wayyyy better. They were probably the best muffins I’ve made in my whole life, which I actually always say every time I find a new muffin recipe that gives me these warm fuzzy feelings, but they really were THEE best.
They were super moist from the banana and peanut butter, crumbly from the streusel, light and fluffy even with the whole wheat flour, and those melted chocolate chips? I die.
And then I die all over again.
The other best news ever is that our neighbors had a baby! Their brand new baby girl came home this last week and the grandmother brought her over so we could meet her. What a sweet pea!
We love you, Baby M.
I gave them some of my three hundred muffins and I’m hoping that they find a way to get some of that streusel into Baby Girl’s mouth. I can tell she really wants some.
What they don’t tell you about food blogging: that your spouse will become a hand model. Thanks love.
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Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Banana Peanut Butter Muffins
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 18 1x
Description
These whole wheat chocolate chip banana peanut butter muffins are loaded with good stuff and topped with yummy streusel! Awesome breakfast.
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons soft butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- 6 small (Filipino!) or 3 large bananas, mashed
- 3 eggs
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- 2 ¼ cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup quick cooking oats (see notes)
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- pinch of cinnamon
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons butter, chilled
- 1 tablespoon water
- ¾ cup whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- pinch of cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375. Cream the butter and sugar until well combined. Add the vanilla, peanut butter, bananas, and eggs. Cream until just combined.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, oats, baking soda, and cinnamon. Add the buttermilk and flour mixture alternately to the butter/banana mixture. Stir gently with a wooden spoon or electric beater on low speed until JUST combined, adding the chocolate chips at the end. Do not overmix.
- For the streusel, combine the flour, sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Cut the butter into small cubes. Add the butter cubes and water to the flour mixture and work the mixture with your fingers, pressing the butter into the dry ingredients creating small crumbs.
- Spoon into greased muffin tin, filling each cup about 3/4 full with batter. Top with a generous spoonful of the streusel crumbs. Bake for 11-15 minutes or until tops are just slightly golden brown and bounce back lightly when pressed.
Notes
You could omit the oats and just add a few tablespoons of flour depending on your texture preference and how thick your batter is. Letting the batter sit overnight in the fridge will also allow the oats to get soft – when I did this, I hardly noticed their texture in the batter.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: chocolate chip muffins, banana muffins, peanut butter muffins, healthy muffin recipe
Maybe these will convince my mom to extend her visit until forever.
I just made these and love them! No better way to use three languishing bananas on my counter top. A great alternative to banana bread!
So happy to hear this, Emily!
I was craving banana chocolate chips muffins. I have never perfected my own recipe but I feel strongly about these types of muffins having some kind of oats. After searching far and wide, I decided to come back to my usual haunt and see if Lindsay had anything to say about bananas and chocolate in muffin form. Lindsay: Hoooow do you do it? Peanut butter too? It is just TOO much. Thanks again!
your banana peanut butter muffins are wooh
Made these muffins this morning while snowed in to get rid of some browned bananas. Followed the recipe exactly except for substituting some plain yogurt and milk for the buttermilk. The texture was awesome, though the muffins did stick a bit to the muffin liners I used, so probably better to just use a greased tin as the recipe directs. I did find the muffin itself to be a little bland, so if I made again I’d add some salt to the flour mixture, use some brown sugar in place of some of the white, and probably double the peanut butter. I also couldn’t help but think that some toffee bits would be killer in here. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for the comment Joanna!
Let me preface this by saying that I am absolutely obsessed with your website and all your amazing recipe ideas! I think I could happily spend the next month cooking all your delicious-looking dinner ideas. I made these muffins last night though, and maybe it’s just cause I’m not generally a crumb topping lover and I left that off, but I wasn’t as big of a fan of the flavor combination as I thought I would be. I love love love peanut butter, chocolate, and bananas, but in this recipe I think I would have preferred to leave out the peanut butter and just focus on the banana and chocolate! They were good though, and I’m sure they would have been great with the topping.
Thanks for the comment Erica!
Our also Midwest-American family always has the same problem. Once, when we were living in Pakistan our 20 year old daughter asked for a kilo of fresh potato chips. When she returned to the car with a bag the size of a pillow I asked, “Why so many chips? Are we having a party?” She replied, “I asked for a kilo and was too embarrassed to ask the man to stop as he just kept filling the bag. Don’t worry, I’ll eat them all.” We used them on casseroles and salads and for lunch and dinner, but they got soggy and stale and we threw most of them them away. That kilo of potato chips was like a ton. Now I cautiously ask for 200 grams of anything and then ask for more or less if I am surprised or disappointed by the quantity. Now we are living in the UAE, but relatives are visiting from Pakistan so I’m off to go bake them the best muffins ever.
These sound amazing! I was wondering, however, if you could substitute the sugar in the recipe for honey? We’re attempting to cut down on refined sugar.
I haven’t tried it but my guess is that it would be delicious!
Came across this recipe this morning, made them, and am just tasting them now. All I can say is wow!!! Super tasty and a perfect combo of crunch on top and moist in the middle. Well done! This one is a keeper and Thank You!!!
Thanks for the comment! I’m glad you liked them!
I thought I was full before I read this…but after looking at all those pictures, I want nothing more than for one of those muffins to be in my mouth right now.
So right on the spouse becoming a hand model! John’s now an expert on the art of the pour : ) Yummy muffins and beautiful little girl!
Ah yes, the pour! That’s always a tricky one. 🙂
everything i love about food is in these muffins. chocolate, banana, peanut butter, ww flour, streusel… they are like the muffins I made last week but with PB added!!! I love these Lindsay and Bjork. They are just gorgeous! the roach in your mom’s hair… EEEK!!!!!!! I literally have NO idea what I would do if that happened to me. Eat a TON of these muffins to lift my spirits, that’s for sure.
Lindsay, I made the muffins yesterday and they are delicious. Thank you very much for the recipe!
I always get confused buying in kilos! I’ve been in India for almost three months now visiting my family, and whenever I go down to the street market to buy some vegetables for the next day, I get completely lost. Between navigating Hindi names for vegetables, kilos and grams instead of pounds and figuring out how many rupees I owe, I always end up confused about something!
These muffins look amazing. I’m bookmarking them for “must make” recipes once I get back to California. I can’t imagine making them here in India. Heating up an oven is the last thing I would want to do in this heat! It must be just as hot where you are, I don’t know how you can stand to bake in the heat, but the rewards sure look tasty!
oh those muffins are gorgeous indeed! Came across your blog during my ‘photography lesson’ online and so glad I did! Though I am a Canon addict and know nothing about Nikon:-(..love your site and sure will keep visiting:-)
I actually use a Canon these days! Canon 7D. I like both. 🙂
I am in awe. Those muffins look stunning and I can already taste them in my mouth. And then I died with the streusel.
Oh and that baby is adorable! Too cute!
I love muffins…and your writing makes me for sure want to try these…yuck about bug in mom’s hair…I would totally be screaming trying to shake it out…and funny about husband as hand model!
Hi Lindsay!!
I absolutely love the way you write! It feels like I’m having a cup of coffee with you, and we’re feasting on these amazing calorie-loaded muffins (but who cares??) and we’re there complaining about the Filipino heat and cockroaches and chatting about trivia all at once.
Sorry your mum found a roach in her HAIR (it must have been traumatic), but she’ll definitely have a huge incredulous story to spill to her friends when she’s back in the states (if her friends haven’t already read your post and got the latest news). say hi to your mum! she must miss you alot!
Regarding the fact that food blogger bfs/husbands have to be hand models… I haven’t resorted to my bf moonlighting as one yet. He had really large fingernails. haha. might scare the readers.
take care Lindsay! and may the termites and roaches be kept far far away!!
love from Argentina,
felicia
Thanks for the nice comment Felicia! We had a great time (me and mom) and I’m sad to see her go.
These look amazing!!! They have to make everyone feel better!
That baby is CUTE! Awwww…
These muffins look fantastic! I think I’ll make some this weekend.
BTW I made your Tamale Pie again yesterday…..it’s a FAVORITE in my house…..YUM! We fight over the left overovers for lunch the next day.
Sounds like us too! Except it’s just a fight between me and Bjork. 🙂
These look awesome!! And kind of sound like something similar to what I made–mocha chocolate chip banana muffins!!
http://www.benandnicoleshea.com/2012/09/labor-day-weekend.html
Will have to try your version with peanut butter–yum!
I actually gasped when I read this title. Like really. This looks ahhh-mazing.
As an Australian I’m the opposite kilograms makes perfect sense – “lbs”….how does that even mean pounds?!!
We just really need to use kg in the US. Come on already.